Identifier: biographicalhist10elio (find matches)
Title: Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Eliot, Samuel A. (Samuel Atkins), 1862-1950
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Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Biographical Society
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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nd from John Gay who came from England before1635, and was one of the founders of Dedham. Mr. Mills message to young people desirous of attaining successis, Work while you work, play while you play, but dont try to doboth at once. Use no intoxicants; go to church; be obedient toparents and have a reverence for sacred things. Honesty, hardwork, economy, public spirit, self-control, the courage to say no/and helpfulness to those who try to help themselves, he believedto be the foundation principles of success. Few men ever took a more active part in a communitys life thandid John Fisher Mills — yet his work was done so quietly, hisinterest so intimately shown, that only his close friends realizedthe largeness of the place he occupied. A typical New Englanderwith many of the characteristics of his Puritan ancestry, prudentand industrious, he had the confidence and respect of all. In hisdeath Needham has lost a good citizen and friend, and the ChristianChurch a sincere and loyal member.
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» £Bj-<,jg? kjojji uiMHe^l ClKJ^JLH . EMIL MOLLENHAUER EMIL MOLLENHAUER, Conductor of the Handel andHaydn Society, was born in Brooklyn, New York, August4, 1855. He was the son of Frederick and Margaret PughMollenhauer. His father was born in Erfurt, Germany, in 1818and died in 1885; his mothers parents were Welsh and she wasborn in Manchester, England. His grandfathers were Hugh Pughand John Mollenhauer. Frederick, Edward and Henry Mollen-hauer were the immigrants of his family, who arrived in New Yorkin 1853, from Germany by way of England. Frederick and EdwardMollenhauer made themselves especially distinguished in musicalcircles. Young Emil Mollenhauer inherited his love of music from hisfather. His mother was a woman of earnest spiritual life and sheexerted a strong influence upon his moral development. She wasalways at hand to encourage and direct him. Emil Mollenhauerearned his own living from the time that he was ten years old,when he played with Woods Minstrels in New Yor

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